Search Results - Geyser Boiler Lamp
- Comment on: Topic 'Geyser Crystal Lamp still in box'
- somewhat valuable now. I've seen them go on eBay for a few hundred bucks, but the market is a little soft now, so maybe less. I had one successfully shipped to me from another member here: http://oozinggoo.ning.com/photo/geyser-lamp-or-boiler-lamp?context=user ;…
- Added by Erin at 4:38pm on November 15, 2014
- Topic: Calling all owners of any and all types of vintage boilers!
- understand what each type of lamp does, I've seen very little footage of them actually running. Thanks in advance! ~ Jonas…
- Added by Jonas Clark-Elliott at 10:59am on February 29, 2012
- Comment on: Group 'We love French Boilers'
- made by glassblowers. Check eBay France, is all I can say.…
- Added by Jonas Clark-Elliott to We love French Boilers at 8:54am on August 20, 2009
- Comment on: Topic 'Unique lamp'
- ke it, grab it, they're no longer sold - too many arrived broken in shipping. Bohdan, how did you open/reseal it?…
- Added by Jonas Clark-Elliott at 8:26am on December 21, 2008
- Comment on: Photo 'FrenchBoilers3DetailsFinal'
- The lava geyser, made of a seamless combination of clear and translucent-orange glass, the double fountain with return pipe, the felt magician or wizard boiler (I've seen felt faces on French glitter lamps, so for now I believe this boiler was sold this way) Hope you enjoy browsing these as much as I've enjoyed spotting and drawing them. Illustration created in Windows Paint.…
- Added by Jonas Clark-Elliott at 5:26am on December 4, 2007
- Comment on: Topic 'French Glitter Hand-Blown Glass Lantern'
- awesome blown glass lamp. It's very unique, and is one of only two I've seen that seems to be aimed at more traditional decor (the other ghad a thick glitter-filled 'candle' in a copper pot with an ornate handle on it). The glass and the tiny glitter bits remind me of the figure eight-shaped Geyser Lamp, as does this one's internal construction regarding the base of the glass. The creators of the Geyser Lamps *had* to have seen both this and the glitterboilers - the question is, where and when did they see them? Old design patents, maybe?…
- Added by Jonas Clark-Elliott at 3:15pm on December 11, 2009
- Comment on: Photo 'Boiler geyser lamp'
- collections got broken, too. They came in two sizes, small and large; small with black or dark translucent blue plastic bases, large (shown here) with metal. Both sizes then came in three shapes: cone (shown here), hourglass, and football.…
- Added by Jonas Clark-Elliott at 4:23am on February 24, 2011
- Comment on: Topic 'Strange Coil Glitter Lamp!'
- s, and I can pick up a proper base for it, inside of this ill fitting normal one. Or in other words, does anyone have a geyser base they are looking to get rid of? Apparently someone called "Bohdan" replaced his glitter water with pink glitter water, so it is doable to at least replace the water, turning it into a real lava lamp is another question altogether though. Bohdan's account seems to not exist anymore, but he is on another lava lamp site. It apparently takes a 15w bulb. The 40w in my base is probably much to much for it. I did remove the little plastic mirror thing before it melted thankfully. Thanks for the info, Keith!…
- Added by Sam Lacey at 1:16pm on June 10, 2014
- Topic: Updated boiler list! Rare French blown-glass "boiler" lamps of all kinds!
- e) that isn't shown in the list, please send it to me or post it here on OG so I can add it to the list! I'm 100% certain that this is by no means all the styles and colors made; every time I get three or four new photos, I add them to the list.Contact me at kitdakat@aol.com if you have lamps to add!Quick FAQ:What are these? Where and when were they made?--"Boilers" were made in the early 1970s in France. They're made mostly or, in many cases, entirely out of hand-blown glass, many carrying stickers reading "fait main" (hand made). A very few sit in metal bases. The silvery cylinders on many of them are bands of adhesive foil. Boilers in general present a liquid motion effect(s) that are different from lava lamps.What do they do?--I've assigned them categories. Boilers - the basic variety - contain a volatile liquid with a low evaporation point, probably ethyl alcohol or methylene chloride. A light bulb illuminates and provides heat. As the liquid in the base becomes warm, vapor is produced, and the pressure of the growing vapor cloud forces the liquid up a glass pipe, usually formed into a decorative shape. When the liquid level in the base gets low enough, vapor flows up the pipe in bubbles, making the liquid in the upper globe appear to boil violently. The liquid flows back to the base and the process repeats. Some models fill up from the bottom, while others start mostly full.Bubblers do exactly that: bubble. They warm up until vapor forms in the top, and eventually the pressure causes vapor to suffuse into the liquid. Bubbles of vapor collect near the heat source and rise to the top. Some, but not all, have a heap of glass beads in the bottom, which give the bubbles something to cling to as they form.Fountains don't just fill, boil, empty and repeat. They bubble up more frequently, and the riser pipe ends in a set of jets or nozzles which squirt fountains of liquid into an upper pool. Small holes around the riser pipe let liquid from the pool flow back into the base. A few rare fountains have a double arrangement, where every few sprays in a lower vessel build up pressure to operate a second fountain in an upper vessel. A return pipe connects back to the base.Glitterboilers simply encase a basic boiler or bubbler in an outer glass envelope that functions as a glitter lamp.Lavaboilers function, basically, as a bubbler, however there are two liquids: clear above, and a thick, colored oil below. The vapor bubbles form in the oil and then rise, coated in a thin layer of oil. When they reach the top, the bubble pops and the droplets of oil float back down. Most of these hide this transformation with a foil band, so the viewer only sees large, clear bubbles zooming upward as little colored drops float down. These sometimes collide, and some lavaboilers add indentations in the glass tube to add to the action. Another category of lavaboiler adds beads, which break up the rising bubbles and cause sprays of oil to rise, something like a very alien lava lamp.Lava geysers function, basically, as a lavaboiler, but concentrate the rising vapor with a nozzle or jet, forcing squirts of oil into the liquid.Handboilers, which were also made later in Taiwan and sold as "love meters", are a basic boiler without a light. Your hand is the heat source. Some have multiple chambers. A few stand on glass pedestals.I've also included two liquid hourglasses, made in France in the 1970s, probably by people who made boilers.Where do you see these?--eBay France, mostly. Look for "lampe bulles" (bubbles lamp) or "lampe ebullition" (boiling lamp).Do you own all of these?--No. I wish I owned more of them, they're uncommon in France but I've only ever seen one reach the US through a shop. I own no. 1, far top left of the boiler list. It is approximately 30" tall. I found it in a local antique shop, the owners of which got it from an estate in the UK of a man who sold laboratory glassware. It had been in his office.How were the list's illustrations done? How complete is the list?I drew the list in Windows Paint. I started in 2005 with six boilers, then up to 9, and the first "list" was in 2006 with 25 items. This first list is in my Photos. The current list has 132 items, including color variants, as well as a number of replicas of stickers found on boilers and notes on which ones had them, if known. I add boilers as I spot them, so if there's one I've missed, send me the photo and I'll draw it in!Feel free to ask questions about these; I'll answer them if I can. I'm no expert, but I can give it the ol' college try.…
- Added by Jonas Clark-Elliott at 3:40am on November 20, 2010
- Comment on: Topic 'Boiler videos!'
- liquid forces it up the central pipe. When it gets low enough, vapor enters and creates bubbles. Some models bubble constantly, some intermittently, and some "cycle" by slowly filling up, bubbling, draining again and repeat. The columns have been formed into all manner of coils, zig-zags, bubbles, stretched and tapered tubes and even donuts to add to the visual effect. What have been termed "bubblers" don't have the pipe extending into the lower chamber. Instead, when the liquid gets warm enough around the chamber containing the light bulb, bubbles of vapor form, then rise to the top. Some bubblers have gravel or glass beads around the bulb chamber to aid in bubble production. Some are cylindrical, while others have interesting blown shapes. "Lava bubblers" add a thick, colored oil in the bottom, under the thinner liquid above. Vapor bubbles carry a coating of oil, which floats back down when the bubbles hit the top. Most of these are cylindrical in basic shape; some also have dents in the glass to bounce the rising bubbles around, while others have beads sitting in the oil, which both aid in bubble production and break up the bubbles. "Fountains" use the rising vapor, which pushes liquid up the central pipe, for a fountain effect; the pipe extends into the upper chamber and has a 'sprinkler' on top, out of which liquid squirts. In some of these, holes near the bottom allow liquid to rejoin the pool in the bottom. In others where the upper and lower sections are separated by a decorative tube or pipe, there must be a return pipe from the upper part leading back to the base, such as with the deer fountain in the video. Another design uses pressure building up in the fountain chamber to send liquid up to a second fountain, and then back to the base via return pipe. Other designs include "glitter boilers," which encase a boiler inside a glitter lamp, and "lava fountains," which operate the same as a fountain but add colored oil, which squirts up into the clear liquid. Some of these companies also made ordinary glitter lamps. There were some hand-held boilers made, too, in which the warmth of your hand creates the effect. The features shared by all boilers is that the liquid-filled chamber is literally sealed at the top. Many lamps were made entirely of glass including the pedestal, all blown into one piece, with a light socket slipped inside and in some cases foil bands or frosting inside the bulb chamber to conceal the bulb. A few sat in metal or other bases with an integrated socket, like a lava lamp, but again, their glass portions were completely sealed. Lava lamps were known and produced in France in the 1970s, but these lamps developed, too. It seems a few were made in the UK and possibly elsewhere in Europe, but most of the production seems to have been French. Makers' names and company names have turned up, but nothing is known about them save that certain companies produced certain things; for example, "S. Vera" of Cleremont-Ferrand produced mostly ornate fountains, "F. Vaudan" of Paris produced mostly lava-bubblers and hand boilers, and "Creations M.U.C." of Paris produced mostly glitter-boilers and glitter lamps. Scientific/laboratory style glassworking techniques were used. Nobody seems to know when these started or how, when they stopped or why, or any other details. We do know, however, that they were sold in stores in the UK in the 70s. Some lamps sold under the "Geyser Lamp" name were made that (poorly) replicated glitter boilers. These were around for a short time several years ago, and are quite scarce now as they were very fragile. No other such lamps are known to be produced now, anywhere. I'm also unclear on what is inside them, liquid-wise-- the hand-held versions made in China in the 80s and 90s contained ethyl alcohol or methylene chloride. I illustrated the first six boilers I ever saw in 2000. I began adding new designs I saw, and eventually created a sort of visual guide to boiler designs. A variance in color or a slight change in shape is enough to cause a model to be added to the list. I've also illustrated several manufacturers' stickers and those reading "fait main" (hand made). I have posted several versions, and here's the current one, posted just now and updated with, among others, the blue deer fountain pictured-- while some, like the deer fountains, are very similar, the variances are distinct, and I've made every effort to put them down with all the detail of the real ones. http://oozinggoo.ning.com/photo/french-boilers-latest-update…
- Added by Jonas Clark-Elliott at 1:52am on August 12, 2014
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